Lives of the Great 20Th-Century Artists

by Lucie-Smith, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780500237397
• ISBN10: 0500237395
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Grouped according to style and era are modern art's pioneers, from Picasso and Duchamp to Louise Bourgeois and Jean-Michel Basquiat. All 100 entries are illustrated with important works, self-portraits, and photos. 273 illustrations, 101 in color.

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(3)
Towards the Modern
Edvard Munch	11	(2)
Kathe Kollwitz	13	(3)
The Fauves
Henri Matisse	16	(4)
Maurice de Vlaminck	20	(3)
Andre Derain	23	(3)
The Nabis
Pierre Bonnard	26	(3)
Edouard Vuillard	29	(3)
Cubism
Fernand Leger	32	(3)
Pablo Picasso	35	(5)
Georges Braque	40	(3)
Robert and Sonia Delaunay	43	(4)
Juan Gris	47	(4)
Futurism
Giacomo Balla	51	(3)
Umberto Boccioni	54	(4)
German Expressionism
Emil Nolde	58	(4)
Paula Modersohn-Becker	62	(3)
Gabriele Munter	65	(2)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	67	(3)
Max Beckmann	70	(2)
Franz Marc	72	(4)
The Vienna Sezession
Gustav Klimt	76	(5)
Oskar Kokoschka	81	(3)
Egon Schiele	84	(4)
The Ecole de Paris
Georges Rouault	88	(4)
Piet Mondrian	92	(3)
Constantin Brancusi	95	(3)
Amedeo Modigliani	98	(4)
Chaim Soutine	102	(4)
The Russians
Kasimir Malevich	106	(3)
Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova	109	(4)
Vladimir Tatlin	113	(2)
Marc Chagall	115	(4)
Liubov Popova	119	(1)
El Lissitzky	120	(2)
Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova	122	(5)
Naum Gabo	127	(6)
Dada
Francis Picabia	133	(2)
Marcel Duchamp	135	(3)
Kurt Schwitters	138	(3)
Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp	141	(4)
John Heartfield	145	(4)
Metaphysical Painting
Giorgio de Chirico	149	(4)
Giorgio Morandi	153	(3)
Surrealism
Max Ernst	156	(3)
Joan Miro	159	(5)
Rene Magritte	164	(2)
Salvador Dali	166	(5)
The Bauhaus
Vasily Kandinsky	171	(3)
Lyonel Feininger	174	(4)
Paul Klee	178	(4)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy	182	(3)
Josef Albers	185	(4)
The New Objectivity
Otto Dix	189	(2)
George Grosz	191	(3)
The Mexicans
Jose Clemente Orozco	194	(3)
Diego Rivera	197	(6)
David Alfaro Siqueiros	203	(3)
Frida Kahlo	206	(4)
America Between the Wars
Edward Hopper	210	(3)
Georgia O'Keeffe	213	(4)
Thomas Hart Benton	217	(4)
Stuart Davis	221	(3)
England Between the Wars
Jacob Epstein	224	(4)
Stanley Spencer	228	(2)
Ben Nicholson	230	(5)
Henry Moore	235	(2)
Barbara Hepworth	237	(4)
Abstract Expressionism
Mark Rothko	241	(3)
Clyfford Still	244	(3)
Willem de Kooning	247	(4)
Arshile Gorky	251	(3)
Barnett Newman	254	(3)
Lee Krasner	257	(3)
Franz Kline	260	(2)
Jackson Pollock	262	(3)
Ad Reinhardt	265	(4)
Post-War Europe
Alberto Giacometti	269	(3)
Jean Dubuffet	272	(5)
Balthus	277	(2)
Francis Bacon	279	(5)
The Heirs of Abstract Expressionism
Louise Nevelson	284	(3)
David Smith	287	(4)
Morris Louis	291	(4)
American Neo-Dada
Robert Rauschenberg	295	(4)
Jasper Johns	299	(4)
British Pop Art
Richard Hamilton	303	(2)
David Hockney	305	(8)
American Pop Art
Roy Lichtenstein	313	(1)
Andy Warhol	314	(5)
Claes Oldenburg	319	(5)
Jim Dine	324	(7)
The Artist Not the Artwork
Louise Bourgeois	331	(1)
Joseph Beuys	332	(4)
Yves Klein	336	(3)
Eva Hesse	339	(2)
Jean-Michel Basquiat	341	(5)
Select bibliographies	346	(3)
List of illustrations	349	(3)
Index of artists	352